Trump says Clinton is 'totally unbalanced,' 'unstable,' and has brain 'problems'
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is "unstable" and "totally unbalanced," GOP candidate Donald Trump said at a campaign rally in New Hampshire Saturday night.
"She short-circuited — she used the term, 'short-circuited.' She took a little short-circuit in the brain," he said. "She's got problems. I mean if we had real people this would be a real problem for her. But I think that the people of this country don't want someone who will short-circuit up here. Not as your president." He offered his Twitter followers a preview of this line of attack Saturday afternoon before the rally.
Trump was referring to Clinton's recent statement that she may have "short-circuited" in mischaracterizing comments from FBI Director James Comey about her private email server.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.